I've searched for multiple forums for this questions and have seen different answers but so far, nothing have worked yet even from the ones I've seen here.
I want to extract a single file from a tar ...

I would like to backup some of my very important data on a remote machine.
Currently I'm just saving it to my local machine by using this command: tar -cvjf ~/backups/Backup.tar.bz2 ~/importantfiles/*
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I'd like to transfer a directory between two servers, but compress the directory on the remote host before transfer, and then uncompress to another host. I'm sure it's possible to pipe everything all ...

I have a folder /home/testuser/log which contain log files of one day old *.log. I wish to compress all the log files older than one day to a single zip(gzip or tar.gz) and delete the older files.
I ...

I need to create a tarball of a given directory. However, I need to make sure hidden files are included too (such as those beginning with .).
Will the following command automatically take the hidden ...

Fun fact: If you use Archive Manager and extract a .tar.gz so that you have "Keep directory structure" unticked, you will get a tarbomb.
tar -ztf lists all the files and directories in a tar file.
Is ...

To make my environment deployable, I occasionally tar up some handy files and scripts:
tar -czvf env.tgz .vimrc .vim/ bin/lsl bin/s
I would like to add .bashrc to the mix, but I have some sensitive ...

I would like to skip a large gzip file when I extract a tar file, but everytime tar starts to gunzip it to look inside it seems.
Even when I just try to peek inside tar seems to start gunzipping it, ...

I just tarballed a dump of some websites (configs, image directory, css directory, and site content (html files etc)) using tar czf sitedump.tgz backup_folder/. The original "backup_folder" was about ...

I want to compress a file with tar but I'd like to know if its possible to do it while splitting the files.
I know that in windows is possible to do this with winrar, I also know I can use split but ...

I have two tar files which are basically backups of my /data folder on android. The problem is the permissions and ownership of the files inside latest back-up is messed up. However the permissions in ...

In a GNU/Linux OS there is no way to change ownership of a file until you are root. But what if I want to hide my system’s username e.g. before sending a file to someone, because some things like tar ...

So I've got an HP-UX 9 box that I'm trying to backup, first to a tape with fbackup, to no avail, and now to a folder shared over NFS. I'm using the command "tar -cvf /nfs/Results/backup.tar /" where ...

I'm trying to come up with an effective way to create a gzipped archive of various system partitions on Android, piping everything out to stdout so as to be able to encrypt it as it comes across via ...